John William Haig

1758 - 1819  (61 years)

• Name	John William Haig
  Birth	24 Dec 1758	Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland
  Christening	24 Dec 1758	Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Dec 1819
  Person ID	I287	Whiskey-Jamesons
  Links To	This person is also John William Haig in the tree "Leith-Jamesons" at Armorial Jamesons A more complete history and genealogy for this John William Haig can be found above

  
  

  Father	John Haig,   b. 1720, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland d. 24 Aug 1773, Alloa, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (Age 53 years)
  Mother	Margaret Stein,   c. 9 Nov 1729, Clackmannan, Scotland d. 1794, Clackmannanshire, Scotland (Age ~ 64 years)
  Marriage	11 Feb 1751	Kennetpans, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
  Notes	John Haig, John Jameson's father in law, was a was a tobacconist in Alloa. His children began the famous Scotch whisky manufacturing company, Haig Whisky, with the help from his wife's family the Steins, sometime in the early 1800's. His wife was Margaret Stein and it was through her/their eldest son John, who eventually became General Manager for her father John Stein at his Kennetpans distillery in nearby Clackmann. In what eventually became the Haig Whiskey Company. His Stein ancestors had established a distillery at Kennetpans around the 1720s when it was set up by Andrew Stein. By 1733, Kennetpans was at one time, the largest distillery in the country, run by Andrew?s son John. It was Stein's son John that branched out into the Irish market which eventually employed John Jameson's eldest son John. Stein himself was not content with a purely Scottish business so in 1780 branched out into Ireland where he established the Bow Street Distillery in Dublin. It was also about this time that the Stein's began several difficult financial problems allowing John Sr. to invest heavily in the Irish Stein distillery business and the Haig's in their Scottish counterparts. John (the son) was primarily responsible for this Dublin distillery and eventually took over that business about 1805 when it became the John Jameson and Sons Irish Whiskey Company. [1]
  Family ID	F4	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Christian Jameson,   b. 6 May 1766, South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1855, Gloucestershire, England (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	21 May 1787	South Leith, Midlothian, Scotland   [2]
  	There are three OPR Marriage Records for what can only be this marriage. 20 Apr 1787 - St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Scotland - OPR 685/02 0170 0210 21 May 1787 - Edinburgh, Scotland - OPR 685/01 0510 0361 22 May 1787 - Leith, South, Edinburgh - OPR 692/020 0110 131 [2]
  Children	1. Christina Haig,   b. 25 Mar 1788, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. Apr 1855, Bedminster, Somerset, England (Age 67 years)   2. John Haig,   b. 5 Aug 1789, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland   3. John Haig,   b. 5 Aug 1790, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. 6 Apr 1852, Surrey, England (Age 61 years)   4. James Haig,   b. 22 Jan 1791, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. 7 Mar 1868 (Age 77 years)   5. Margaret Haig,   b. 5 Sep 1794, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. Abt 1833 (Age 38 years)   6. Robert Haig,   b. 22 Sep 1796, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. Oct 1878, Sussex, England (Age 82 years) + 7. William Haig,   b. 14 Jan 1799, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1844 (Age 44 years)   8. Jane Haig,   b. 24 Jan 1801, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1883, London, England (Age 81 years)   9. George Andrew Haig,   b. 13 Feb 1803, Bonnington, Midlothian, Scotland d. 29 Apr 1882, Newton Abbot, Devonshire, England (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S122] https://www.alloaadvertiser.com. https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/19111023.walk-past-wee-county-founder-jamesons-whiskey [S23] Marriage Record. National Records of Scotland